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Post by pickle20 on Nov 12, 2018 9:55:05 GMT -5
Aired last night. It featured Bourdain going back to the Lower East Side and profiling the change the neighborhood has gone through in the last 30 years.
It's going to be hard for me to watch it. I saw the Kenya episode yesterday and I pretty much cried the entire time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 10:06:04 GMT -5
Aired last night. It featured Bourdain going back to the Lower East Side and profiling the change the neighborhood has gone through in the last 30 years. It's going to be hard for me to watch it. I saw the Kenya episode yesterday and I pretty much cried the entire time. I have read all his books and tried to like the guy but he hated Baltimore. I realize he didn't have a great experience when he lived here and worked as a chef in Harborplace during his drug addled days in the '80s. These Food Channel people need to know there is more to Baltimore's culinary scene than Lake Trout and Chap's Pit Beef.
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Post by pickle20 on Nov 12, 2018 10:07:15 GMT -5
Aired last night. It featured Bourdain going back to the Lower East Side and profiling the change the neighborhood has gone through in the last 30 years. It's going to be hard for me to watch it. I saw the Kenya episode yesterday and I pretty much cried the entire time. I have read all his books and tried to like the guy but he hated Baltimore. I realize he didn't have a great experience when he lived here and worked as a chef in Harborplace during his drug addled days in the '80s. These Food Channel people need to know there is more to Baltimore's culinary scene than Lake Trout and Chap's Pit Beef. Yeah I wish he had done a proper episode here but I don't hold any grudges.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 11:59:39 GMT -5
I thought the Lower East Side episode was pretty bad, but I guess they wanted to bring the Bourdain story full circle. Seeing Lydia Lunch and the other now-aged punks today had to be depressing for those who grew up on that scene.
The Okinawa episode OTOH was really good. It presented a perfect balance of Okinawan culture, food, history, and the varying generational insights into life there today and about U.S. military presence. The Okinawans were surprisingly open about how they differ from, and their general dislike of, mainland Japan because of how they were treated by the Japanese.
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